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The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Advice to a noodlum,s Father.

Judge Noonan occasionally says as good q
thing as was ever uttered by any of the Irish
barristers whose witticisms were preserved
for us by the chroniclers of the sessions of tho
Monks of the Screw. The other day a Young
fellow with a very good reputation was
brought before him. charged with assault with
intent to kill. It was proved that his life had
been Threatened by a gang of hoodlums, and
he had asked protection from tho police.
None was given him, and so, when lie was
attacked by a party of them while he was at
tending to his business, he drew a pocket
knife and cut one of them.
1t was clearly q case of self defense, and
Judge Noonan discharged the young man, at
the same time telling the prosecuting hood
lum, who was in court with his father, that
if he didn't stop his attacks OH respectable
people he'd get cut all to pieces some day.
The rascal went out of the court room surlily,
but his father fingered, not at all satisfied
with the result of the trial, and when tho
judge came down from the bench he accosted
him impudently. "Judge," said he. snow that
you've let that mar so, what satisfaction do
I gets" "You," replied the judge, looking
the complainant over leisurely. ooh, well,
you can go across the street to that saloon
yonder and damn this court."-St. Louis
Globe Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
How to Apply Insect Poison.

The bureau of entomology, department
of agriculture at Washington, d. c., sends
out the following for use as insecticides
on or about plants, trees, etc.:
London Purple.-To twenty pounds
Hour from one-quarter to one-half pound
is added and well mixed. This is applied
with a sitter OR blower. With forty gal
ions O! water one-quarter to one-half
pound is mixed for spraying.
Paris Green.-With twenty pounds of
hour from three-quarters to one pound is
mixed and applied by Sitting or by a
Inc same amount of the insects
eide to forty gallons of water is used as a
spray.
Bisulphite Of Carbon.-For use in the
ground a quantity is poured or injected
among the roots that are being infected.
Against insects damaging stored grain of
museum material Il small quantity is used
in air tight vessel.
Carbollc Acid.-A solution of one part
in 100 of water is used against parasites
ana domestic animals and their barns and
sheds; also on surface of plants and among
the roots in the ground.
Helebore.-The powder is sifted nm
alone or mixed one part to twenty of
flour. With one gallon of water one
quarter pound is mixed for spraying.
Kerosene Milk Emulsion.-To one mart
milk add two parts kerosene, and churn
by force pump or other agitator. Thu
butter like emulsion is diluted adj libitum
with water. An easier method is to sim.
ply mix on part of kerosene with eight OF
milk.
Soap Emulsion.--In one gallon hot
water one-half pound whale oil soap il
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Agricultural Notes.

The prospect for the apple crop is dis
couraging in almost every section except
in New England and New York. The
present is the ''off" or non-bcaring year.
though many young orchards are fruitful
i'll the 'otf' year.
y decrease i'll cotton average is noted in
North Carolina, and is attributed to the
beginning of an effort Oh the part of plant
crs to grow their home supplies.
Reports from different states make it
appear that there will be a fair grape yield.
From Germany comes the report that Il
decided preference is given in that country
to American hickory for forest culture.
Truck farming i'll Louisiana is becoming
one of the important industries of that
state.
Virginia is raising a less quantity of
tobacco, but it is Of improved quality.
Favorable reports of the cotton crop
come from several states.
Crop reports from Manitoba are en-
couraging.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
AN APACHE MOTHER AND GUILD,

The baskets arc of the regular Indian style
and the poor papooses are laced into them
tight and snug. Some squaws, when they
stop to rest, remove the basket and its live
burden from their backs and hang it to the
saddle horn, because if left OIL the ground the
dogs go around and lick the babies faces,
which the little ones do not enjoy.
A San Francisco correspondent tells the
following story: Zone rather frisky pony,
with a baby on the horn of 4 saddle, wanders
from the rest and is Immediately surrounded
by a crowd of dogs. Their barking starts
him to trot, and with a Shrek the mother
rushes from her place in the line to catch him.
But the pony doesn't wan to be caught, and
from q trot turns to a run, and away he goes
the basket Tapping on his side only making
him run the harder. Finally the strap that
holds the basket breaks-down comes baby,
thump, to the ground, face down, and tho
pony, after running a few more rods, is
caught by q boy, while the distracted mother
picks up her unfortunate infant. and imme-
diately unlacing the deelskin cover, takes it
out to assure herself it is sound in body after
its rather risky ride md fall.n
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LIFE ON THE ls7HMUs.
a const,nt Strain of Excltement-A Rail-
road Conductors Trials-The Canal.

road Conductors Trials-The Canal.
"The isthmus at present, " said a gentleman
who had just returned after q two months
miserable sojourn on the isthmus, sis the
most undesirable place to live On TINT 1 know
of. Nothing could drag mo down there
again. The early days of California, with
their scenes of hardship, robbery and death,
Won MI hold a candle to the condition of
al. - l"nama. One lives under a con-
stan TRAIN i excitement, and the work on
the canal, with the fair rate OF wages that is
paid, has attracted to the spot the otfscourins
of tho earth. Night is turned into day, and
the scenes of debauchcry and unlicensed re-
straint do not end with daylight. The sums
of money that are being spent there are al
most fabulous when the results are con-
sidercd. The most valuable machinery,
which has cost thousands upon thousands to
bring there, is going to ruin. Money seems
to flow plentifully from somewhere, and no
one seems to care to hoard it when it gets
there. Life? Lives are considered of less
valuo than the machinery, and that's not
saying much.
1--WE arrived there just about tho time
several United States war vessels dropped
anchor i'll the harbor. They had been sum-
moned to the spot to protect the interests of
al American who had been arrested for
murder and who it was feared would be dealt
little mercy. He had been n conductor on
the railroad which runs across the isthmus.
The conductors, by the way, are n pretty
tough lot, I must admit. In fact, the ability
to take hard knocks and shoot we'll are about
the only qualifications required. The supply
is generally secured in Texas. For bell
punches the conductors, as might be sup
posed, carry the regulation 4S-calibcr re-
volver. When the natives around the stations
along the road are spelling for n fight they
board the trains md refuse to pay their fares.
This diversion relieves the monotony of their
existence rs well as that of tue conductors.
The man who had been arrested had run
across q sample lot of this kind ono day. Tho
fare was demanded and refused. Texans,
that is the dyed i'll the wool kind, are not
easily blufTed. So our man, giving his re-
volvcr a hitch, told the crowd it was fares or
no ride. AS he turned to reach for the bell
rope one of the Isthmians drew his ever ready
knife and sprang ut him. There was no time
for delay, for the train was fairly well
crowded with the fellows countrymen, and
indecision meant death and tho loss of the
fares too. So, true to his employers, the con-
ductor drew his pistol and punched his faro
with n great round hole. And he held tho
whole crowd at bay until no delivered himself
to the authorities, such as they were. Idon't
know how it was, but the war vessels hadn't
been there for any length of time before tho
conductor had escaped. They said he had
bribed his jailers.-"Obse1ver'' in Philadel-
Min Gall
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pennsylvania Dutch Homo 1;fe.

In the farm, social and home life is where
you will find the Pennsylvania Dutch i'll all
their glory; and it would be only he who can
never be warm again, like Harry Gill; inthe
old poem, whose heart would not glow at a
bit of his life being passed under the influence
of the plainness, but radiant cleanness and
bounty of these people. In the first place n
poor Pennsylvania Dutchmnn israrely found,
and n poor Pennsylvania Dutch farmer never.
Young or old, lie lives like a rural monarch
in q kingdom of hard won but never ending
plenty. He does not wan book or newspaper.
knowledge, for he fears the effect of laziness
and airiness upon his children. Tho latter go
a month or two i'll winter to the cross road or
village school, where they speak English in
differently, but they always speak their
mother tongue at home, and if you are an
American and have acquired that, you need
no other open sesame to the hearts, larders or
pockets of these people.
They are the best farmers on earth without
qualification; their barns are wonderful
structures in capacity and arrangement; their
homes are shining nests i'll bowers of fruit
and bloom; their grains, vegetables, butter
and fowls ore the finest hat come to market;
their animals are the sleekest and plumpest
to be found, and while thrift's hard hand
ever presses upon daily fact and act, there
is no other place in this land where the table
and the board of virtuous cheer so stagger
under the toothsome fruits of goodly TOLL
Edgar L.. Wakeman's Letter.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Street Cars in Mexico.

Another amusing oddity is that the street
cars run in groups, one never being seen
alone nor two together, but always three or
four in q row less than half a block apart,
Instead of starting from the terminus one
every five or ten minutes, several are started
at once every half hour. To run each car it
requires two conductors, besides the driver,
and also, in many places, two or three SOL
diers armed capapie. The first conductor
approaches a passenger, sells him a ticket,
and pockets the money, and soon the second
conductor comes along and takes up the bit
of printed pasteboard; meanwhile the brass
buttoned guardians of the peace stand glow
ering upon you, with suspicious eyes and
loaded carbines. In some respects the double
conductor system is better than the ''punch
in the presence of the ~passengaire" mode of
the United States; but though the soldiers
are provided TO insure the safety of passen-
gers from robbers and revolutionists, a timid
person is moro worried by their presence
than by the possible dangers they are sup
posed to avert.-Sacramento Record.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Timely Notes on Bee Keeping.

Work to be done in the npiary during
the summer months runs somewhat us
follows:
Arrange hives for boxing and extract
ing.
Have everything in readiness for
swurms. if this system is practical.
Rear queens, and make artificial
SWarlnS.
Nrntilate strong swarms in the warm-
est weather.
Remove surplus boxes us soon rs full,
and supply the place of the first ones with
empty boxes.
Look out for the moth Larvae in surplus
honey and extra combs
Extract at suitable intervals.
If preparations are to be made for viii
.cring bees indoors the work ought to be
done in warm weather. that all damp
material may he dried before the room is
occupied by the bees. DO not neglect
refuse comb designed for wax.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Thinning Fruits.

All h%orticulturists who grow choice fruit
for market realize the Importance of thin
ming out the embryo fruit by relieving
trees and vines of any surplus and of all
inferior or diseased specimens. Farmers,
as IL rule, also recognize the Importance of
thinning fruits. hut comparatively few Of
them do ii, the plea being that it is too
much trouble. The consequence of neglect
in this direction is IL lot of inferior fruit,
often unfit for any market; very unlike
the choice grades that command highest
prices.
The surplus of trees or vines may he re-
moved before the flowers have hloomcd
by the operation of d%isbudding, or it may
be lone us soon as the fruit has set: in
deed. thinning may still be accomplished
after the fruit is half grown, by reducing
the number, so that what remains will be
fully and perfectly developed. This thin
ming out of fruit pays alike on pear,
peach, plum and other fruit trees, and es-
pccially have its good effects been noted
on grape vines. 1t is by the removal of a
large portion of clusters of embryo fruits
that prize grapes, peaches and the like are
obtained.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
ENJOY LIFE.

What n truly beautiful world we live in. Nature
gives us grandeur of mountains. glcnS and oceans.
aud thousands of means of enjoyment. We can
desire no better when in perfect health: Int how
often do the minority of people feel like giving
it mp dishcar;cncd. discouraged and worn ont
with disease, when there is no occasion for this
feeling. as every sufferer can easily obtain salts
factory proof. that Green's August Flower. will
make them free from disease. as when born. Dys-
pcpSia and Liver Complaint are the direct cause
of seventy five per cent. of such maladics rs Eli
iousntss. Indigestion. Sick Headache. Costivcncss.
Nervous Pro>ira,ion. Dizziness of the Head. Pal
ri:ation of the Heart. and other distressing symi.
toms. Three doses of August Flower will prov,
its wonderful effect. Sample bottles. 10 cents
Try II. Apr. 80 y
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Save Tie Liuni1 Manure.

Scientists nave proven by chemical
analysis the value OF liquid manure as
plant food, and it will pay farmers to save
all that is made in stables, barns and cat
tie sheds, This can be done by conduct
ing it into tanks or cisterns made for the
purpose, or by the use of absorbents. The
latter is the more usual plan, and not a
few farmers consider the bedding from
sheds and stables of horses, sawdust and
other material saturated with urine, one
of the most valuable components of the
manure pits and compost heap. Liquid
manure must be largely diluted before
application; hence the plan alluded to of
doing it by absorbents and mixing therein
With the manure heap. is an excellent one.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Finger Nails in England.

The American hand is smaller than the
English hand, but the nails are not as hand
some. The English nails are almost univcr-
sally rosy and shell like, and, cut to a
rounded, slightly tapering point, kept always
scrupulously clean. The skin at the base is
pushed back to show the onyx, q little white
half moon. The onyx is carefully cultivated
and polished by the creoles of New Orleans,
to show that they have nc black blood in
their veins. No matter how fair the COM
plexion, tho valuable insignia of pure blood
is wanting to the octoroon if the onyx is
clouded. With persons who employ a mani
cure the onyx develops every day more and
more.
With those who are careless of this precious
gem of a beautiful hand the onyx is some
times completely hidden. 1t is always OBJ
servable in a well kept English hand.
The American nail suffers from the dry
ness of our climate, as a foreign picture
painted on panel suffers from the same
cause.-New York World.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
YOUNG FOLKS COLUMN.
HOW A FRlsKY PONY RAN AWAY
WITH A LITTLE PAPooSE.

An Interesting Game That May be
Played with Pcbbles-Historical Stories
About Domestic Cats, Including tho
One About Dante and His Pet.
History assures us that tho cat has been
esteemed from remote ages. In most eastern
countries cats hav been great favorites. So
much We're these animals venerated by the
Egyptians, their bodies We're emlallned when
they died and placed in inches of the cuta-
combs. Numbered with well known stories
Illustrative Of the Egyptians love and venera-
ton of cats is the one told of Cambyses, king
of the Medcs and Pcrsiuns, who lived $50
years before Christ. This king when he led
his army against the Egyptians, is is said,
gave to each Of his soldiers a live cat to hold
before him instead of n shield, and the
Egyptian yielded TO the conqueror rather
than injurc their much loved animals.
Instances are on record where cats nave
been taught to perform useful offices to man.
A notable one is that of Dante and his cat.
1t is told that Dante taught his animal to
hold u candle i'll its paw for him while he
read, and that he was very proud of his sue
cess i'll making the cat subservient to his will
in tho mnnner described
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Vortex Smoke Isinrs-

Amateur chemists may amuse themselves
as we'll as entertain their friends by produce
ing vortex smoke rings. All the apparatus
required to produce this effect is an empty
cigar box, one of the ends of which, being
removed, is replaced by canvas tightly nailed
round it. "A circular hole about one inch i'll
diameter is bored i'll the opposite end; inside
the box is n saucer half filled with carbonate
of ammonia, upon which sufficient hydro
chloric acid is poured until a dense vapor of
ammonia chloride fills the box, which, upon
slight, rapid pressure upon the canvas end of
the box, is elected from the hole, and assumes
beautiful circles of white smoke, which as
cend and retain their shape till dissipated.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
TRANSMITTING Celery,

Select if possible the first day after u
heavy rain for transplanting celery, when
the ground is cool and moist. Set the
plants about the same level, with the
ground around them, us they grew before
transplanting. Remember, if set too high
the plants will wilt; if set too low they
will be smothcrcd. Press the earth firmly
around the plants nj time of tra%nsplanting.
Celery plants may be set between rows Of
early vegetables, such as onions. cabbage,
and the like, when ground is limited. y
usual plan is to SC; the plants in rows
about three feet apart, the plants being
six inches distant in the rows.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Newly Set T'rccs

Newly set trees require special care Mt
this season, and many trees will doubtless
die of neglect that with proper attention
might thrive. Hot, dry weather kills
many young trees. The ground around
newly set trees ought to be frequently
stirred and not allowed to become hard.
Ii trees were net mulchcd at time of
planting stir the soil and apply as u
mulch some substance that will soak up
and retain moisture. 1t does no good to
water trees that are not mulchcd in dry
weather. A mulch serves n double pur-
pose; it retains moisture in the ground
below it, and holds moisture in itself to
be given up as the soil beneath it dries.
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in tho manner described.

In England cats are such great favorites
that cat shows are held every year ut tho
Crystal palace, where all sorts of fancy
breeds arc exhibited. In our own country
the tortoise Shell cat is perhaps the most pop
ular Of all breeds. We nave also beautiful
Maltese cats. also AnSora cats with long sill
very hair; then there are cats of the Persian
breed, with soft glossy fur, white under
meath and gray on tho back. To these may
be added quite n list of mixed breeds, some
of which are not only beautiful to look ut,
but exceedingly useful in their legitimate
pursuits after mice.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
An English Game,

An English exchange describes n game
played by English boys and girls: A little
heap of pebbles is piled up i'll a certain spot
on the lawn. Each person is led, in turn, to
n certain distance from the heap, blinlfolled,
given n stick, turned round three times and
then told to start off and do his best to beat
down the little heap of stones. 1t is delicious
to see the solemn mir of some of the per-
formers, and to watch the vigor with which
they pound away at nothing, whole yards Off
the place where the stones are. No matter
how you may fix their exact position in your
eye, and pace it out before you arc blind
folded, you aro certain to go wide of 1t. 1t is
an odd thing, but q true one.
The Dickinson press., 1887-07-30
Occun,tion If Authors i'm 1850.

In the preface to Harpcr's Magazine,
established i'll June, 1850, is given the where
abouts of ONE prominent authors at that
date, showing their connection with periodi-
Gals and newspapers at that time. Here is q
quotation:
"Iamartine has jus. beco.nc the editor of a
newspaper. Dickens las Just established u
weekly journa! nt Lis own.t hr"ush which Ii" is
giving To the world some If thr most exquisite
AMI delightful creations that ever r0ine from lis
magic pen. Alison writes constantly for i:iach-
wood. Lever is e~nli>t", in The Duhlin University
Magazine. Eulwc aiml Irnly publish their great
cst and most brilliant novels first in the pag,so of
the monthly magazines of England and Scotland.
Macaulay ,as c,IriclNl The Edinburgh Review
with volumes Of the ,a"st magnificent produc-
tions of English litcraturr.'
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PLANT PROTECTOR.

This inexpensive protector consists SIM
ply of Il piece of card board or stiff paper
of any kind, cut as seen in Fig. . i'll the
illustration. When the ends are brought
together and the Sits, indicated in the
illustration, made to interlock aconc, as
seen in Fig. l, is produced. which, when
placed around the plant. furnishes us COM
plete a protection against insects as the
most expensive device,
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w111rE SOLID L

Numbered with leading varieties popu-
lar in many sections, and notably in the
great celery districts about Kalamazoo,
Mich, is Golden Dwarf" In size and
habit of growth it is much the same as the
half dwarf and dwarf kinds, except that
when blanclcd the heart is Of Il waXy
golden yellow. 1t is, during winter, mi
of the best keepers known.
"I5oston Market is a favorite around
Boston, and is similar to the dwarf white
varieties, but rather more robust. ''Giant
White Solid'' is one of the best of the
large growing sorts, and is priced in
southern sections especially, because it
will thrive i'll n dry, hot atmosphere.
"White Plume" n comparatively new
celery, lns found fnNor among nmuieur
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Chinese in America.

In 1850 there wcro 1o5.465 Chinese in this
country. The immigration from China was
in 1850 1000; in ISL, 10000; i'll 1sS2, 35,0oO.
Then legislative action came, i'll 1ss3, to check
the tide. In that year the number fell to Isl
and i'm 1851 To 81. 1t is estimated tilat nearly
one-hulf of those who come so back. With for
tunes of from $3.50 to 81 600 each these people
cam live in China i'll comparative comfort OH
the income of their savings.
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The Prolific Sparrow.

Some thirty years ago the inch Worm be-
cam" such Il nuisance, especially i'll the parks
of large cities, that II gentleman living i'll
Brooklyn sent for Il pair of English sparrows
from which to raise a progeny ior the deStruc-
ton of the worms. This pair was liberated
on Columbia heights. Another pair were
placed in Madison square, New York, and
afterward large numbers We're brought over.
They have spread all over the country in such
numbers that it is now questionable which
would I've preferable, the slarrows or the inch
worm.
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Tic cahbarc Wornn.

The cabbage worm is the larva of the
white butterfly, and should be hand
picked before the first brood has passed
the perfect state. Pyrcthrum, mixed with
five times its weight of plaster, busted
into the center of the leaves with bellows,
is etlectual. Paris green is also efIectunl,
but. being Il poison, it is unsafe to use it
after the leaves are more than four inches
lonp
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dissolved. This, instead of milk, is miXcd
to MI emulsion with kerosene in the same
manner and proportion as above.
Pyrethrum persian insect powder).-Is
blown or sifted Oh dry; also applied in
water, II gallon to Il tablespoonful of the
powder, well stirred and then sprayed.
Tobacco Decoction.-This is made as
strong as possible as II wash or spray to
kill insect pests Oh animals and plants.